Philo, Volume III: On the Unchangeableness of God. On Husbandry. Concerning Noah's Work As a Planter. On Drunkenness. On Sobriety volume 247

523 Pages·1930·9.35 MB·English

by  Philo Judaeus

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PHILO
III
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PHILO
IN TEN VOLUMES
(AND TWO SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUMES)
III
WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY
F. H. COLSON, M.A.
LATE FELLOW OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
• AND
THE REV. G. H. WHITAKER, M.A.
LATE FELLOW OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD
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American
ISBN 0-674-99272-5
British
ISBN 0 434 99247 X
First printed 1930
Reprinted 1954, 1960, 1968, 1988
Printed in Great Britain by
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME III
PAOB
PREFACE vii
LIST OF PHILO'S WORKS ix
ON THE UNCHANGEABLENESS OF GOD (QUOD
DEUS IMMUTABILIS SIT)—
Introduction 3
Text and Translation . 10
ON HUSBANDRY (DE AGRICULTURA)—
Introduction 104
Text and Translation 108
CONCERNING NOAH'S WORK AS A PLANTER (DE
PLANTATIONE)—
Introduction 207
Text and Translation 212
ON DRUNKENNESS (DE EBRIETATE)—
Introduction 308
Text and Translation 318
ON THE PRAYERS AND CURSES UTTERED BY NOAH
WHEN HE BECAME SOBER (DE SOBRIETATE)—
Introduction 438
Text and Translation 442
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CONTENTS
APPENDICES— PAGE
I. To Quod Deus immutabilis sit · · · 483
II. To De Agricultura 490
III. To De Plantatione 494
IV. To De Ebrietate 500
V. To De Sobrietate . . . . . .. 510
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PREFACE TO VOLUME III
THE death of Mr. Whitaker in May does not prevent
his name from appearing as joint translator in this
volume. Both the treatises for which he was
primarily responsible, viz. De Agricultura and De
Plantatione, were in print at the time, and had been
examined and criticized by myself, as the other three,
which fell to my share, had been by him. It has
remained for me to carry out the final revision, and to
draw up the Appendix and most of the footnotes.0
It should be added that his name will not disappear
from Vols. IV. and V. The whole of Vol. IV., both
his share and mine, was in typescript at the date
of his death, and had been the subject of a
certain amount of correspondence between us. His
share of Vol. V. is in MS., though it has not been in
any way revised.
The translators have to acknowledge, as in Vols.
I. and II., the assistance they have received from
the German translation still in progress. But Mr.
Whitaker, like myself, felt that a special tribute was
due to the admirable work of Dr. M. Adler on the
treatises De Ebrietate and De Sobrietate, and his cor­
rections of Wendland's text. If our text of these
treatises is, as we both have hoped, superior in places
to that of Wendland, it is mainly due to him.
8 In a few cases, where I felt doubtful whether Mr.
Whitaker would have accepted them, I have appended my
initials.
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PREFACE
The second and larger volume of Leisegang's index
to Philo, which had previously only reached to Zeta,
appeared almost simultaneously with Mr. Whitaker's
death. Though neither volume deals with more than
a selection of Philo's words, the first volume was
much valued by both translators, and the complete
work, which has already been of considerable use to
the survivor in his final revision, should greatly pro­
mote the accuracy of the translation.
F. H. C.
Oct. 1930.
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LIST OF PHILO'S WORKS
SHOWING THEIR DIVISION INTO VOLUMES
IN THIS EDITION
VOLUME
I. On the Creation (De Opificio Mundi)
Allegorical Interpretation (Legum Allegoriae)
II. On the Cherubim (De Cherubim)
On the Sacrifices of .Abel and Cain (De Sacrificiis
Abel is et Caini)
The Worse attacks the Better (Quod Deterius Potiori
insidiari solet)
On the Posterity and Exile of Cain (De Posteritate
Caini)
III. On the Unchangeableness of God (Quod Deus im-
mutabilis sit)
On Husbandry (De Agricultura)
On Noah's Work as a Planter (De Plantatione)
On Drunkenness (De Ebrietate)
On Sobriety (De Sobrietate)
IV. On the Confusion of Tongues (De Confusione Lin-
guarum)
On the Migration of Abraham (De Migratione
Abrahami)
Who is the Heir (Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres)
On the Preliminary Studies (De Congressu quaerendae
Eruditionis gratia)
V. On Flight and Finding (De Fuga et Inventione)
On the Change of Names (De Mutatione Nominum)
On Dreams (De Somniis)
VI. On Abraham (De Abrahamo)
On Joseph (De Iosepho)
Moses (De Vita Mosis)
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